SCIENCE 



Friday, Octobee 20, 1911 



CONTENTS 

 Medicine and Sociology: Peofessok C. K. 



Bardben 497 



Lectures on Solar and Terrestrial Fhysics. ... 507 



Br. Christian Archibald Herter 507 



Scientific Notes and News 508 



and Educational News 511 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



Morgan on Coupling vs. Bandom Segrega- 

 tion: Dk. R. a. Emekson. Siiernation: 

 De. Allen Cleghoen. Drafts and Colds: 

 H. F. Dunham. Washington Science: 

 Another Washingtonian. Changes in the 

 Personnel of the International Commission 

 on Zoological Nomenclature: Dr. Ch. Wae- 

 DBLL Stiles 512 



A Laboratory for Eugenics 515 



Scientific BooTcs: — • 

 FarTces on Sygiene and Public Health: Dr. 

 Geo. M. Kobee. Thomson on Evolution: 

 V. L. K. Watson on British and Foreign 

 Building Stones: De. Geo. P. Mereill .... 515 



The Astronomical and Astrophysical Society 

 of America: Professor B. H. Curtiss .... 520 



MSS. intended fot publication and books, etc., intended for 

 leTiew should be sent to the Editor of Sciekce, Garrison-on- 

 Hudson, I^. Y, 



MEDICINE AND SOCIOLOGY^ 

 It is a pleasure to have this opportunity 

 to be with you at your commencement ex- 

 ercises. Rush has attracted many Wiscon- 

 sin graduates medically inclined. Not 

 only in the present graduating class but 

 also among the members of your faculty I 

 greet not a few "Wisconsin men. Further- 

 more, the University of Chicago, with 

 which Rush is officially affiliated, has a 

 course in the premedical and medical sci- 

 ences similar in ideals to the one we have 

 at Wisconsin. In the premedical course at 

 Chicago in addition to physics, chemistry, 

 biology and a modern language some work 

 is required in social science. Work of this 

 kind is advised but not required at Wis- 

 consin, but I am not sure but that it should 

 be required there. There is ever greater 

 need for sociology in medicine. 



On the one hand, medical problems are 

 at bottom social problems and are to be 

 wisely solved only by those who have some 

 knowledge of social science. On the other 

 hand, the increasing complexity of the so- 

 cial organization brought about by the in- 

 troduction of machinery and of rapid 

 means of transportation of people, materi- 

 als and news, the urbanization of the pop- 

 ulation and industrial concentration, have 

 developed social problems which demand 

 above all else the intelligence of men 

 broadly trained in medicine. The triumphs 

 of civilization are due to organization, to 

 the subordination of individual whims to 

 broad social aims. Its failings, on the 

 other hand, are in large part due to the 

 too constant appeal to selfish personal in- 

 ' Address delivered at the commeneement exer- 

 cises of Eush Medical College, June, 1911. 



